Disability
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Technology and media
idea
Let’s use bold, beautiful hearing aids to celebrate deafness
Hearing aids have always been designed to be concealed, yet they’re a beautiful affirmation of deafness – and should be seen
by Jaipreet Virdi
![A bathroom scene featuring a metal toilet roll dispenser with a partially unrolled toilet paper, mounted on a tiled wall.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/c8671832-e03f-4bd8-bdf1-852ae5655c20/rt-nn11514297.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Human rights and justice
idea
Public toilets are vanishing and that’s a civic catastrophe
New research shows it is a nightmare for all of us, but especially for people with health issues and marginalised groups
by Guido Corradi
![A black and white image of a girl in a white dress dancing behind her younger brother in a wheelchair, with trees and a road in the background. They are both smiling.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/e59e9b2b-27d4-481d-a4fb-47bf6f66c886/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Disability
film
‘I’ll always err on the side of beauty’ – a mother’s cinematic ode to her son
Directed by Kelly O’Brien
![An X-ray image of a human chest displayed on an illuminated screen, showing ribs and part of the spine.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/511baf2c-ad5e-42fa-81c6-a694fa11183c/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
The body and physical health
idea
Studying tuberculosis in India, I saw the problem with cures
The ideal cure, a return to before the disorder or disease, can happen. But often that’s just not how bodies and life work
by Bharat Jayram Venkat
![Busy city street at dusk with people walking, illuminated by bright lights from buildings and vehicles, including a lit-up truck and taxis in the background.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/f67d91fb-1af8-4b5a-9561-dc860c2fcc0a/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Disability
idea
A few simple steps could empower the world’s largest minority
What makes people like me disabled is not our bodies but the societies we live in. Let me inspire a rethink in your attitudes
by Paras Shah
![Abstract artwork of a disjointed figure composed of beige organic shapes and red geometric forms, creating a fragmented, surreal appearance.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/8d73efc3-37dc-4700-811a-13f4a5a5a5c3/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
The body and physical health
film
A wildly imaginative exploration of what movement means to someone without it
Directed by Mathieu Labaye
![Two performers are dancing on a stage in front of an audience. The scene is vibrant, featuring red and purple lights, with spectators taking photos and videos.](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/77c82997-e590-4127-a5a3-7c4999417be7/gigurtis-rt.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Dance
idea
How dance taught me to embrace my deformity
In the raw style of Tanztheater, I found a way to take my poetry into the physical world and express myself authentically
by Billy Gigurtsis
![As a man holds open one side of a double glass door, another man opens the other side. The glass in the doors is almost opaque](https://images.aeonmedia.co/images/7eaf3953-efd7-4d39-aa59-59ce201f3777/original.jpg?width=3840&quality=75&format=auto)
Disability
idea
Blindness transformed my social world, and I changed with it
One of the biggest challenges in becoming blind late in life has been overcoming sighted people’s negative assumptions
by Jeffry Ricker